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Auction 130  13 May 2015
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Lot 1653

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 100 GBP
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BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Christ's Hospital, c. 1790, a silver Marker's medal by L. Pingo, edge named (Frank W. Hawes, 1881), 35mm (Eimer 66a; MI I, 61/16; E 29; Grimshaw 90); Polytechnic Industrial Exhibition, London, a silver award medal by J.A. Restall, named (A. Wigginton, for Building Designs, January 1891), 56mm; Nottingham High School (Founded 1513), a silver award medal, unsigned, named (F.P.C. Walker, for Mathematics, 1896), 44mm; King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon, a silver award medal by Vaughton, named (Warden Newcomb Bicknell, for his industry, integrity & honour, 1927), 45mm [4]. Very fine and better, last lightly cleaned in the past, others toned £100-150

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Frank Wallace Hawes (b. 1866), South Kensington, London. Warden Newcomb Bicknell (1909-92), matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 1927; English housemaster at Royal Grammar school, High Wycombe, pre-War, then headmaster of Tadcaster Grammar school; served as a squadron-leader in the RAF in World War II
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